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... the songs "African Romances", the "African Suite" for piano, and "Five Choral Ballads", a setting of poems on slavery by Longfellow, which include influences from native African music. The Petite Suite de concert (1910) was another of his famous piano arrangements. In the United States Coleridge-Taylor's music and work inspired the establishment of the Coleridge-Taylor Choral Society. This was a choral ... ...
Grappelli, Stephane Grappelli, Stephane (1908-1997), French violinist, one of the few musicians to adapt the violin successfully to jazz. Grappelli was born in Paris. He studied classical music at the Paris Conservatoire, but after hearing American improvisational jazz recordings, he dropped out of school and began playing in that style. By the 1930s Grappelli was giving concerts and recording with the great Belgian jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt as part of the Quintette du Hot Club de France. Their quintet was one of the most popular attractions in France, occasionally performing with Joseph...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756. Even before he was four, he had amazing powers of musical memory and ear-sophistication. Mozart's father, Leopold, felt that he was so great he decided to sign Wolfgang up for harpsichord lessons. At five years old, he was already composing his own music. And at age six, wolfgang was a keyboard vituoso, so great that Leopold took Wolfgang and Maria Anna, his daughter on a tour of Munich and Vienna. By Mozart's early teen years, he had mastered the piano, harpsichord, and violin. So, he wrote keyboard pieces, oratorios, symphonies, ...
